On One Proof of the Two-Ase System of Declension in the Early Indo-European Language (Based on the Old Germanic Relations of Indo-European *dn&t- /*dуnt-)
The Early Indo-European language, being a language with the active structure, at the dawn of its history had the two-case paradigm. During the typological shift the former active case developed into the genitive, while the inactive case became the accusative. The nominative case developed from the genitive later, and the Indo-European and particularly Old German words with the meaning “tooth” have preserved some archaic features of the time when the nominative case did not perform the function of the subject.
Issue: 9, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)
Rubric: Topical Problems of Indo-European Linguistics
Pages: 31 — 35
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